October 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Repeat (*) key in TaBlE
by Aditya Mahajan 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Hi, What is the correct way of using * key with TaBlE? The following does not work \starttext \starttable[|*{2}l|] \HL \NC A \NC B \NC \NR \HL \stoptable \starttable[|l|l|] \HL \NC A \NC B \NC \NR \HL \stoptable \stoptext Thanks, Aditya

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Numbered subitems
by WN 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi, I want to make a numbered list as follows *Artikel 1. First artikel *1.1. Text for item 1.1. 1.2. Text for item 1.2 *Artikel 2. Second artikel* 2.1. Text for item 2.1 2.2. Text for item 2.2 etc. I am trying to accomplish this with \setupitemgroup and \defineitemgroup as follows, but the second level start also with Artikel and is indented. I looked at the some of the emails relating to numbered subitems but could not find a working example. Thanks for any help Wim % test code \defineitemgroup[mylist][levels=2] \setupitemgroup[mylist][1][atmargin][n,repeat] \setupitemgroup[mylist][1][width=5em,stopper=.,headstyle=bold,left=Artikel ] \setupitemgroup[mylist][2][atmargin][n,repeat] \setupitemgroup[mylist][2][width=2em,stopper=.,left=] \startext \startmylist \head First artikel \startmylist \item Text for item 1.1. \item Text for item 1.1. \stopmylist \head Second artikel \startmylist \item Text for item 2.1 \item Text for item 2.2 \stopmylist \stopmylist \stoptext

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14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi, I'd like to typeset various symbols (as examples included in normal text lines) from musical notation from the 14th century ("Mensuralnotation"). These symbols can be seen in http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf I just have absolutely no idea e.g. which font these symbols support ... Could someone show me a way? Thanks, Steffen

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MKIV: encoding for pdf-strings
by Peter Münster 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hello, When using luatex, utf encoding is not taken into account in pdf-strings. Minimal example: % engine=luatex \enableregime[utf] \setupinteraction[state=start,author=Peter Münster] \starttext Peter Münster \stoptext Output of pdfinfo: Author: Peter MÃ¼nster Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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metapost question
by Thomas A. Schmitz 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Just because I hope that someone may have done this already: does anyone have metapost code to draw the "Platonic solids" (I hope the attachment comes through). All best Thomas

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Fixed floats and header placement
by Wolfgang Schuster 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hi, I have a small document with a few figures and all of them should be placed where I write them in the document. ConTeXt has the 'force' for placefloat to get this but the key has also many sideeffects. Take the following example, the second headers appears at page 4 but the rest of the page is empty and the figures continue at page 5. I tried to use another value \fixedfloatmethod but none of them give a prefect result. - \chardef\fixedfloatmethod=0 put the socnd header an page 2 - \chardef\fixedfloatmethod=1 put the second header at the bottom of the first page - \chardef\fixedfloatmethod=2 put the second header at the bottom of page 3 and the figures continue an page 4 - \chardef\fixedfloatmethod=3 is the default with a empty page 4 except the second header \setupfloat[figure][default=force] \starttext \dorecurse{2} {\section{Section} \dorecurse{6}{\placefigure{none}{\framed[width=12cm,height=8cm]{}}}} \stoptext Wolfgang

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Turn off interaction in some TOC levels?
by John Culleton 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

I want interaction at the subsubsection level but not higher. I have turned off line numbers for section and subsection. However both these levels remain interactive. The whole line is blue. I tried interaction=pagenumber, interaction=sectionnumber, interaction=no, interaction=none, and no interaction parameter at all at these levels. Nevertheless the whole entry remains interactive. some code: \setupcolors[state=start] \setuphead[chapter][head=nomarking,number=no] \setuphead[section][number=no,textcommand=\bf] \setuphead[subsection][number=no] \setuphead[subsubsection][number=no] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=blue] \setuplist[section][alternative=f,style=bold,interaction=sectionnumber] \setuplist[subsection][alternative=f,interaction=no] \setuplist[subsubsection][alternative=a,interaction=all] The good news is that I found a handy way to bookmark just the index in Acrobat Reader. I filched some code from an old Han The Thanh file: \pdfcatalog{/PageMode /UseOutlines} % bookmark window open \newcount\marknumber \marknumber=1 \def\bookmark#1#2{% \pdfdest num \marknumber xyz \pdfoutline goto num \marknumber count #1 {#2} \advance\marknumber by 1} ................. \bookmark{0}{Index} \placecontent ................... The explanation of the format of the \pdfoutline command in the manual wasn't clear to me but the above macro clears it up. -- John Culleton http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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Compatiblity option in pdf
by John Culleton 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

I created a short document http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf using Context and with a clickable TOC and one thumbnail. The thumbnail was created with the Han The Thanh pdftex macro code I mentioned recently. Some users view it fine, others with earlier versions of Acrobat Reader have problems. A friend ftom the InDesign/Distiller world suggests that I recreate the pdf with the compatibility option turned on. Does this suggestion have any meaning in the Context/pdftex world? Can interested readers read the above url OK? -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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Pesky list problem
by john＠wexfordpress.com 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

I tried building my own TOC as follows: ... \definelist[subject][alternative=a] \definelist[subsubject][alternative=a] \definelist[subsubsubject][alternative=a] \definecombinedlist[foo] [subject,subsubject,subsubsubject] [level=subsubsubject,criterium=local] \setupcombinedlist[foo] \starttext \title{Annotated Booklist} ... \placelist[foo] \subject{Top Choices} \subsubject{General Publishing} .... This set of commands stops with errors. What stupid thing did I do this time? -- John Culleton -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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Pstricks and overlays, LuaTeX and Pstricks
by Ioannis Thavoris 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Is it possible to create overlays using ConTeXt with Pstricks ? Any example? Will MarkIV-LuaTeX support Pstricks? Thank you in advance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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